This thing is about as un-entertainingly trite as you can get - Brit country house cross-trysts & confusions among all guests, play-within-a-play, tediously implausible plot - all served up via a Brit-wit rom-com repartee about as syrupy lugubrious as that epitome of British cuisine - treakle.
Richard "E." Grant is just playing his stock idiosyncratic character - what non-Brit thinks a Brit acts like (pip pip, tally-ho, and all that)- as he has been doing for about 5 dozen movies since his breakthru "Withnail & I" over 40 years ago - talk about "dining out" on the same performance again and again ...
I was interested that Sarah Brighton was in the cast - and would have loved a "Phantom" singing reference of some sort, but no - so a tease w. No pay-off and a lot of utterly boring snippets from the opera Cosi Fan Tutti.
The other characters are really worth mentioning, non-entities.
So there it is - if you get your first impression of how Brits do "comedy", you're going away with a pretty bad impression ...
Richard "E." Grant is just playing his stock idiosyncratic character - what non-Brit thinks a Brit acts like (pip pip, tally-ho, and all that)- as he has been doing for about 5 dozen movies since his breakthru "Withnail & I" over 40 years ago - talk about "dining out" on the same performance again and again ...
I was interested that Sarah Brighton was in the cast - and would have loved a "Phantom" singing reference of some sort, but no - so a tease w. No pay-off and a lot of utterly boring snippets from the opera Cosi Fan Tutti.
The other characters are really worth mentioning, non-entities.
So there it is - if you get your first impression of how Brits do "comedy", you're going away with a pretty bad impression ...